It's not the mods. Anybody with over 100 points can moderate a comment. Also, you're new here, so I'll just tell you: it's pointless to whine over a post getting negged. They don't affect your points or anything else of worth, so it just comes across as really petty and immature. It happens to all of us.

I don't get it with the Longhorns. For all the talk about how well the SEC recruits Texas recruits just as well year in and year out. Since 2002 they've had two #1 classes, four #3, #7, #10, #13, #14 & #16. That's eight top 10 classes in the last eleven years and only 1 MNC since 1970.

Also, I really hate to say it, but I honestly don't think we have the #1 class in the nation at the current moment. Texas's recruiting class is looking very good right now. That however, can definitely change if we pick up a couple key guys (some combination of Isaac, Treadwell, Fuller, Vanderdoes and Cravens).

They hold their junior day. The entirety of the state of texas attends and hope for an offer. The best guys get one. They commit. Then the rest of the recruiting world catches up and everyone realizes that the Texas players aren't the only good recruits out there.

Look at all the Texas talent on the top 100- 7/15 of them are going to Texas.

Texas players:

10- Texas

14- Oklahoma

21- uncommited

30- Texas AM

42- Texas

43- Texas

48- Texas

52- Texas

53- Texas

54- Texas AM

70- uncommited

78- Texas

84- uncommited

89- uncommited

100- uncommited

MICHIGAN PLAYERS

28 (Morris)- UM

99- Elmer- ND

They have a huge advantage with so many Texas kids commiting early and so many top TX recruits. MI can't just take top MI guys and get a top 10 class like Texas can. It is harder to get a top class when there are less guys who immediately sign- like the top TX guys who root for Texas and sign right away.

TX 15, MI 2 for top 100- that's why Texas can put up quick monster recruiting classes and why it is so amazing Michigan is able to do that without the top MI talent. Ohio State can do similarly in Ohio what Texas does- but not with quite as many top recruits- (Ohio has 5 top 100 recruits- three to OSU, Thomas to us, and one uncommited.)

Why even make a top 300 and put 3* players on list. Why not make a top 250 like Rivals. At least they stop at the 250 and they are all 4* players, you don't see 200 4 *s then 50 3*s. I guess I will folllow the very biased Rivals Rankings this yeasr since we have 12 4 stars. i wonder if David Dawson stayed in Texas would he have 4 stars now.Also for those who have the time keep track of all of Texas's 4 star recruits and also Bama's recruit to see how many get bumped up to five star status.

I like that they name the top 300 even if they're being conservative with handing out a fourth star for now (b/c they don't want kids to lose stars later). It was nice to see Dukes show up on one of these lists. There's a big difference between being one of the very top 3-star kids and among the top 300 nationally and being a mid-to-low 3-star. It's both good information and good that guys like Dukes, Lewis, and Dawson are in the former group. (For Hill, I think it's mostly about his position.)

There's only two QBs, and if you watch the guy from Washington's film he looks very, very good. Nothing to be ashamed of being put behind him there. And the other QB is a dual threat guy that is basically being heralded as Vince Young Jr. So he's the second best Pro QB, what's wrong with that?

I would imagine that Shane's hype last year was due to his outstanding performance at camps, and that his relatively less impressive high school numbers (1684 yards, 51.5% completion, 19-7 TD/INT) have depressed his ranking just a little. He's still very highly regarded, and I would imagine will jump back up a few spots when he throws at camps again this year.

More reason for Shane to hit the camp circuit and follow with a solid year on the field. Shane is very competitive so I expect him to do just that. If this other guy is better he will have to prove it.

For all those wondering about 3 stars being in the top 300, keep in mind Scout eventually makes all the top 300 4 stars and all the top 50 5 stars. Yeah, it's a bit weird. But if that holds then Bosch also gets a 5th star and everybody except Taco and Hill get a fourth. And I really don't see how Taco isn't a 4 star. But the same could be said about Wormley and Rivals last year.

Shane Morris and LTT are grossly underrated in my opinion, but it's a nice surprise to see Dymonte up there. It's weird to see how Scout and Rivals' opinions on McCray are so different, but I haven't checked out his film yet, and his offer list outside of Michigan isn't anything to write home about, so I'm not going to bitch about him being underrated yet.

I think Shane would be a top 15 player to every site if he let his recruitment play out while he raked in offers. It also doesn't help that he wasn't playing on a good team last year (they ran the ball a ton, correct?) so his stats weren't really what you would expect of a 5-star qb. I think he's going to have a huge senior season so he'll move up a bit. Does anybody know if he's going to be attending any camps over the summer? I imagine he will so he can do some recruiting.

You're exaggerating. Negative 75 would be way too high for him, I have him pegged at negative 50, for what it's worth.

I meant to go back and clarify what I meant by that. That was mostly directed at LTT, but I threw Shane in there because in my opinion his numerical ranking is about twice what it should be. 14-15 spots isn't much, and he's a shoe-in to be a 5-star, but taking that into account, it makes it seem worse. What I'm trying to say here is that I used poor word choice and just feel like he's about as underrated as the 28th player in the country can get.

Interesting that it looks like scout is lower on our guys than rivals this year, which is the opposite of recent years. FWIW, Scout's rankings are a little more in line with the scouting reports from people whose opinions that I trust that have seen these guys play.

I'm happy with our 3* guys. They are steals IMO and should be ranked higher. This is the happiest I've ever been with the 3* mafia. Their weakness are things that can be coached or aren't that big of a deal.

Whos is we? We, the posters at MGoBlog? Because I haven't heard anyone who knows anything who has said the coaches want him at DE. I've heard people say he could grow into a DE, but not with any certainty.

Also, keep in mind that Alabama runs a 3-4, so the OLBs they have are not terribly different than they guys we play at WDE. If guys like Frank Clark, Brennan Beyer or Mario Ojemudia played at Bama, they'd be linebackers.

We should want our commits to be underrated. That will help keep the pressure from other teams off them. I am pleasantly suprised that guys like Taco are apparantly off the radar of the big guns. Hoke and Mattison know talent, especially Mattison after 28 years coaching dline. I don't give a damn about the stars. In fact I like to be underestimated, carrying around all those chips can make shoulders stronger.